Questions and Answers:
A- We will be expressing this through the relationship of the two individuals and how one the main female protagonist (Lauren) has the power to control her boyfriend and try to show to the audience what it is really like for someone to be in this condition and it can affect others as well as themselves.
2) "In terms of editing, how are you going to represent her change in personality?"
A- Adding layers will provide different personalities however throughout our music video you will see sudden clues to how she will be represented such as the colours we use in some shots will determine the mood she is in and therefore how she is acting which will show a variety of sides to her personality.
3) "How are you going to recreate the 'How deep is your love' section?"
A- To recreate this, we will use our photography studio with a black screen behind Lauren whilst we record her posing in the different shots which we will then edit and layer onto each other. We will then change the saturation- which is an example for the answer of the last question. The colours will have their own meaning.
4) "Are you going to conform to the indie genre?"
A- Due to our props and mise en scene (of which does not fully conform to indie genre) we will be focusing on the Pop and Alternative Genre and the narrative story in our music video.
5) "How does your lyrics relate to the narrative idea?"
A- The lyrics have been related in many ways. What we interpreted from 'Free The Animal' is that some people and this built up tension in them, such as stress, anger which then causes 'anxiety' for example. In our music video we wanted to show how the animal within her (the animal being her illness) is slowly destroying her relationship with her boyfriend but the boyfriend in her life does not mind being pushed around because he loves her so, although finding her harder to handle and be with.
6) "Where are you going to film the hospital scenes?"
A- Our hospital scenes will probably be set on a table with cloth underneath, the reason for this is if we did use a bed then it would be harder for Lauren to move when she performs her choreography.
11) "Really like the idea and the inspiration video that you showed. How/where would you get the doctors equipment, e.g. needle, oxygen mask etc."
12)"Are you following the narrative video compilation completely?
(Really like it!!)
14) "How are you going to approach such a touchy subject and not offend the audience?"
15) "How do you plan on showing the projections?"
17) "Love all of the ideas for the video! I especially love the idea of the bit of Gigi Hadid"
18) "We love the projecting images. Not sure about the school location. How would you show she has taken control?"
7) "How will you get the hospital props? the bed?"
A- I know of someone who is a doctor who may be able to help with the simple doctors equipment such as gloves, stethoscope, thermometer etc..however if we still cannot get hold of the equipment for this scene then we will be using the most simplistic props such as a clipboard and checking the patient.
8) "Are you sure the school hall/house locations will look professional enough for your video?"
A- We will not be using the school hall in our music video as we later on discussed as a group that the venue was not fit for the purpose.
9) "How are you going to make the two extremes link?('American dream' vs 'Mental institute')"
A- We will be changing our mise en scene, props and costume for both ideas. For our hospital scene will will use the bare minimum for costume and mise en scene as the simplicity and low/dim lighting should convey a realistic approach of a 'Mental Institute' and so the opposite of this would be bright lighting and more extravagant venues and costumes which will hopefully portray the 'American Dream'.
10) "Why has the female protagonist got control over her boyfriend?"
A- The reason for this is because of her 'animal' has got the best of her and is stereo-typically shown as putting themselves first and therefore dominating their relationship and slowly taking control of her boyfriends- making the male protagonist lightly vulnerable.
11) "Really like the idea and the inspiration video that you showed. How/where would you get the doctors equipment, e.g. needle, oxygen mask etc."
A- (Exaplained in Question 7)
12)"Are you following the narrative video compilation completely?
(Really like it!!)
A- Yes we will try and stick to our idea as close as we can however during any process there will be some trial and development in improvements and I think some changes will be made in the process of filming.
13) "How are you going to reveal the protagonists multiple personality disorder? love the video"
A- (Explained in Question 2&3)
14) "How are you going to approach such a touchy subject and not offend the audience?"
A- To not offend the audience, we will thoroughly research into the disorder and not imitate the stereotypical characteristics that they portray.
15) "How do you plan on showing the projections?"
A- To show the projections we will either be layering and editing the footage of 'Photoshop' or film using a Literal projector.
16) "Have you done any research into 'Madness' as a taboo controversial subject?"
A- No, not yet as we wanted our audience to understand our initial narrative idea, but now we will find out more about Multiple Personality Disorder and it can be successfully portrayed.
17) "Love all of the ideas for the video! I especially love the idea of the bit of Gigi Hadid"
A- We understand now that the layering technique used in Calvin Harris's 'How deep is your love' is shown to be a good idea and therefore we are going to portray this into our own music video.
18) "We love the projecting images. Not sure about the school location. How would you show she has taken control?"
A- We will be showing this through the idea created in Taylor Swifit's 'Blank Space' and the religious concept of Adam and Eve and how Eve is controlling Adam with the apple projected in the music video and we will be using the photography studio for the house as we realised will look very unprofessional if we used the school hall (which was our initial idea).
